Living a life of honesty and openness is freeing and light. Without secrets hidden inside and lies built up around you, you can be free! People who live a life with deceit and dishonesty need to keep their walls up and need to keep a mask on so that their lies are not...

Oh man, this topic really brings me back to my childhood!  Learning how important it is to tell the truth and not lie.  Understanding that lying usually leads to worse consequences than just being honest in the beginning.  Learning that other people do not really want...

This is a big skill, one that can really change our lives and make a difference in what happens in our life.  Self control is something that we all need and I believe the whole world needs a good dose of right now. It's like a muscle that we need to continually...

Unfortunately self awareness is not something we hear a whole lot about these days.  We are told to please ourselves and follow our heart or emotions and do what makes us happy but we do not hear about self awareness.  Yet without self awareness we cannot even begin...

Now here is something that is really lacking in a lot of us today. We make decisions and if the results of that decosion are good then we are happy and loud about i8 t! However when our decisions lead to bad outcomes so often we begin to play the blame game. We go...

What Is Your Acceptable Level Of Risk We all have a level of risk that we are willing to take in life.  Some of us are willing to risk everything and do it regularly, others are willing to risk very little in life.  Since it is your choice how you live your life and...

Can we agree on one thing?  Can we agree that every person in this world has their own story?  And in my mind there is an almost 100% chance that their story contains as much if not more tough stuff than good stuff?  If we can agree on that, then this next life skill...

I have a serious question for you.  What have you ever gained by being jealous of something or someone?  Nothing but a bad attitude which often leads to being ungrateful for what you do have in your life.  It's like a sickness that spreads and moves through your...

Today I sit at work and I look out the window and I cannot see anything beyond the parking lot directly below my window and a little bit of the street beyond because of a thick oppressive fog.  Normally at this time in the morning I would see the Minneapolis skyline...